"Marsilio Ficino is in the center of the painting in the act of explaining, with an inspired air, a passage from Platonic philosophy. He holds his lesson in his left hand and around him, among the members of the large Serristori family, only the old man and the young woman from behind in the foreground seem to listen to him; the rest of the company is intent on picking flowers, talking pleasantly or physically showing themselves to create movement, like the child and the dog. The historical truth in the clothes and features of the characters appears attentive to show grace and elegance. On the left a group of figures, among which the woman with a basket in her hand and Priest Benedict are clearly identifiable, seems to divide the painting into two parts and bring us back to the nineteenth century, to those groups of people who had so much iconographic fortune in the painting in those years. The scene takes place on the Poggio di Prete Benedetto or Calvario di Figline. In that place there was in the year 1000 the "Castello di Fegghine", as there remembers Bossini (A. Bossini, History of Figline, Florence 1970, p. 354). The landscape, from that height, is still today similar to that painted by Sarri and even the vegetation of pines and cypresses seems to respect the same confused harmony of growth in my eyes. In fact, nature is the second and, perhaps, the only true protagonist of the painting: the sun, with a late summer afternoon light, lengthens the shadows and makes the vision of the outlines atmospheric "

cf. Egisto Sarri 1873-1901, exhibition catalog (Figline Valdarno, 6 May - 2 July 2000) edited by M. Bucci, Florence 2000, pp. 99-100.